Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decided to challenge it in a state-wide contest. Projecting the image of an attractive young problem-solver, he entered the Democratic primary in July, 1966, in an effort to wrest the nomination away from veteran Sen. A. Willis Robertson. Although he was helped by abolition of the poll tax and the subsequent growth in the Negro electorate, Spong's most active support came from a whole generation of young voters who could not identify with the old men in the Organization. Robertson conducted the best-financed and least imaginative campaign Virginia has ever seen, while for the young voters...
...bullets, the other of plows and pamphlets. In both wars, the U.S. effort has been set back by months, and perhaps years, as a result of the Communists' recent attacks against the cities of the South. With the countryside wide open to Viet Cong soldiers, recruiters and tax collectors, the crucial rural-pacification effort is at a standstill. "We have had a hell of a setback," admitted a high-ranking U.S. official in Viet Nam. "To even mention 'the other war' at this time is just a lot of nonsense...
...Government for low-income families over the next ten years. In the first year, 300,000 homes would be built, and for the first time, 100,000 needy families would be given a chance to buy the subsidized houses. Private industry would receive Government inducements such as tax write-offs to construct 20 million other houses and apartments...
...finances between flamboyant Governor Claude Kirk and militant members of the Florida Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association. The root of the trouble goes back to Kirk's 1966 election campaign, in which he promised to produce something of a political miracle: to hold state taxes steady and at the same time make Florida "first in the nation in education." State educators dismissed the incompatible promises as idle oratory-only to discover that Kirk was not kidding-at least about the tax lid. He vetoed $130 million worth of special appropriations for the schools voted...
Faced with the clear threat of a state wide walkout in October, Kirk agreed to call a special session of the legislature. That session began Jan. 29 and ended two weeks ago, after passing a bill providing for about $250 million in new taxes (on beer, liquor, cigarettes and other sales). State officials argued that the new appropriations would provide teachers with an average increase of $1,340 per year. Despite this generous offer, the F.E.A. insisted that the funds would not provide any real improvement in classroom conditions; too much of the new tax money, the association says...